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Anomalous transient enhancement of planetary ion escape at Mars [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAtmospheric ion escape plays a crucial role in the evolution of planetary climate and habitability. While Mars has been the focus of extensive in-situ spacecraft observations, our understanding of ion escape at Mars has been constrained by single-point ...
Chi Zhang +19 more
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MAVEN-based investigation of Martian exobase temperatures: Diurnal and solar cycle variations
地球与行星物理论评, 2023 The exobase is a key concept for understanding atmospheric escape and evolution on Mars. With the aid of neutral density data measured via the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer onboard the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, we ...
Hao Gu +5 more
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Quantifying the Key Factors Affecting the Escape of Planetary Atmospheres
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The habitability of Earth-like planets is an increasingly important subject in astrophysics and in planetary sciences. Atmospheric escape plays a vital role in the evolution of the habitability of Earth-like planets.
J. Luo, H.-Q. He, G.-S. Tong, Jiao Li
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Measuring the electric fields in space
地球与行星物理论评, 2021 Measuring electric fields in the space environments of the Earth and other planets helps us to understand the electric field structures and plasma waves in the space.
Kun Li, Jun Cui, Yong Wei
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Helium Atmospheres on Warm Neptune- and Sub-Neptune-Sized Exoplanets and Applications to GJ 436 b [PDF]
, 2015 Warm Neptune- and sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets in orbits smaller than Mercury's are thought to have experienced extensive atmospheric evolution. Here we propose that a potential outcome of this atmospheric evolution is the formation of helium-dominated ...
Hu, Renyu, Seager, Sara, Yung, Yuk L.
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Self Similar Shocks in Atmospheric Mass Loss Due to Planetary Collisions
Atmosphere, 2020 We present a mathematical model for the propagation of the shock waves that occur during planetary collisions. Such collisions are thought to occur during the formation of terrestrial planets, and they have the potential to erode the planet’s atmosphere.
Almog Yalinewich, Andrey Remorov
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XUV-driven mass loss from extrasolar giant planets orbiting active stars [PDF]
, 2014 Upper atmospheres of Hot Jupiters are subject to extreme radiation conditions that can result in rapid atmospheric escape. The composition and structure of the upper atmospheres of these planets are affected by the high-energy spectrum of the host star ...
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Species-dependent ion escape on Titan
Earth and Planetary Physics, 2019 Cassini observations over the past ten years have revealed that Titan possesses a chemically complex ionosphere. In this study, we investigate the relative contributions of different ion species to the total ion escape on Titan, by dividing all ion ...
Fa-Yu Jiang +3 more
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Earth and Planetary Physics, 2022 Tailward ion outflows in the Martian-induced magnetotail are known to be one of the major channels for Martian atmospheric escape. On the basis of nearly 6.5 years of observations from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, we ...
HengLe Du +7 more
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Molecular Dications in Planetary Atmospheric Escape
Atmosphere, 2016 Fundamental properties of multiply charged molecular ions, such as energetics, structure, stability, lifetime and fragmentation dynamics, are relevant to understand and model the behavior of gaseous plasmas as well as ionosphere and astrophysical ...
Stefano Falcinelli +7 more
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